A place for me to vent and to talk about my projects, not necessarily in that order.

06 June, 2011

Finally some decent weather!

True to the forecast, the weekend was gorgeous and in the low to mid-70's. I was indeed grateful that I had picked up a fan earlier in the week because as I suspected, my place gets a little stuffy and the fan came in handy.

I had a big weekend planned - I mean, lots of things I wanted to get done, not fun stuff. It had been a long week, and boring in the extreme with two days of meetings so I was ready for a good sleep Friday. Unfortunately some tenants had other plans. I suppose because Friday was the end of school term for some people, and that's an awesome reason for a party. However, this was a VERY loud party and I kept waking up again and again. The last time was around 3:30. I could have complained but since it was Friday and the end of the school year and I'm a new tenant, I just let it go. It did mean that I slept in very late Saturday and got a late start, but oh well. Tink and I finally got out for out long walk around 10:30 and strolled down to the lake, which was very busy with a million and one other people walking their dogs. I let her get into the water which she liked a lot.

One of my main goals this weekend was to finish up the Shining Birds Eyes Shawl, so I spent a few hours on that Saturday after running errands. I had to stop with 3 rows to go. I wasn't tired until late so I read for a long while, which meant that I slept in AGAIN on Sunday! Truly not typical for me these days but I guess I needed the sleep. It was gorgeous and warm again and I put on some shorts for the first time this year. Tink and I took an alternate route on our Sunday walk and I (finally) found my local dry cleaner. I knew there had to be one close since there are so very many condos and apartments in my neighborhood. So now I can drop a few things off tonight on our walk after work.

Before I could let myself pick up the shawl again I had to finish the closet and drawer project I started last weekend. It took a couple of hours but I managed to get my shoes switched out and coordinated, rearrange the drawer situation and put a lot of clothes into a box which will, most likely, get donated the next time I move (which hopefully won't be that far in the future). I was most pleased with the results.

I then spent the rest of the afternoon and evening working on the shawl. I finished up the last three rows and just started the bind off when I took a break to work out and have dinner. I wanted to watch a movie - I have three Netflix movies sitting there - but not as much as I wanted to get the binding off completed. It is a gorgeous bind off called crown picot bind off. It is also a time consuming bind off. I got to the exact half way mark and it took me nearly two hours! I have my work cut out for me. I did take a little break to walk Tink during that time and maybe it won't take me all of two hours to finish it up, since I am now in a rhythm. And the bind off is making this thing bloom! It's going to be huge. And gorgeous.

I have been scanning my Twitter feed for airline bargains to no avail .... yet. I won't give up looking but I have noticed that there never seem to be any bargains going out of Seattle and very few out of LAX. Maybe I don't have the right feeds. I'll do some more digging. I did find a great fare from NYC to London so that gives me hope that something will turn up. It is not necessary to get a killer deal, but since I have this trip planned so far in advance, it would be kind of fun to get an outrageous bargain as well.

I have been thinking about the linen camisole I'm going to frog. I hate working with that linen but I am thinking that maybe if I rewind the balls into one or two larger balls it would be easier to work with. Opinions? I haven't made a garment with linen yet so I really want to try it, but without all the hassle.

Only two meetings this week, but one of them is only 1 1/2 hours rather than a whole day. I did get quite a bit of plain stockinette knitting done on the Kaleidoscope cardigan Thursday and Friday so it wasn't a total waste of time. That is coming along nicely as well. In a couple more days I will be able to start the sleeves.

We are going to be having nice weather most of the week and I am looking forward to my run today. I didn't get to go even once last week so it should be a good one. Or not.